The Stillness of the Wind returns to a lonely apocalyptic goat farm
Indie designer Coyan Cardenas is going back to the farm with The Stillness of the Wind, a sequel to his 2017 game, Where the Goats...
JPEG XS is a new VR video streaming format optimized for 5G and Wi-Fi
Best known for its eponymous and ubiquitous photo standard, the Joint Photographic Experts Group (JPEG) has announced JPEG XS, a new video compression standard...
Google opens VR video and photo format VR180, promises new publishing tools
Introduced at VidCon 2017 last June, Google’s VR180 video and photo format for VR isn’t yet being used in shipping products. But with its first hardware...
Bossa Studios’ Worlds Adrift launches May 17 on Steam Early Access
Bossa Studios’s massively multiplayer online game Worlds Adrift is based on the concept where if you build it, they will come — and pitch...
PlayStation’s ad impressions keep beating Xbox, Nintendo, and mobile brands
Sony’s PlayStation console brand is still leading when it comes to ad impressions, but Nintendo and King are rising in the ranks. GamesBeat has...
NBCUniversal’s VR strategy focuses on attractions, not headsets
NBCUniversal is interested in creating virtual reality content, but Chris Heatherly, the company’s gaming boss, gave one reason that isn’t a viable strategy yet...
Star Wars: Battlefront II’s Janina Gavankar throws down the gauntlet at triple-A gaming
Star Wars: Battlefront II actress Janina Gavankar has a warning for both triple-A game studios and Hollywood: “Lean in or die off.” She took the stage...
Esports investment is booming because its fans have more money to spend
If you’re a fan of a traditional sports team, you know that those franchises have no shortage of ways to get you to spend...
Brian Fargo would like his Robot Cache to ‘be the Steam of blockchain games’
Brian Fargo is the founder of Interplay Entertainment, a studio known for role-playing games like Wasteland and The Bard’s Tale, and InXile Entertainment (Wasteland...
Hearthstone’s Walnut Sprite helped set The Witchwood expansion’s playful, creepy tone
This was first reaction when I saw Walnut Sprite: “He looks like someone hit him upside the head.” That got a laugh from Ben...